TABLE OF CONTENTS. EDITORIAL: Past the Human: Narrative Ontologies and Ontological Stories, Serenella Iovino, Roberto Marchesini, Eleonora Adorni - INTRODUCTION: Posthumanism in Literature and Ecocriticism, Serenella Iovino - STUDIES AND RESEARCH CONTRIBUTIONS: From Posthumanism to Posthuman Ecocriticim, Serpil Oppermann - Threatening Animals?, Heather I. Sullivan - The Posthuman that Could Have Been: Mary Shelley's Creature, Margarita Carretero González - Gadda's Pasticciaccio and the Knotted Posthuman Household, Deborah Amberson, Elena Past - Posthuman Spaces of Relation: Literary Responses to the Species Boundary in Primate Literature, Diana Villanueva Romero - COMMENTS, DEBATES, REPORTS AND INTERVIEWS: Can the Humanities Become Post-human? Interview with Rosi Braidotti ,Cosetta Veronese - REVIEWS

Dialogo Ergo Sum: from a Reflexive Ontology to a Relational Ontology, R. Marchesini - The Party of the Anthropocene: Post-humanism, Environmentalism and the Post-anthropocentric Paradigm Shift, F. Ferrando - From Anthropocentrism to Post-humanism in the Educational Debate, A. Ferrante e D. Sartori - Senseless Distributions: Posthumanist Antidotes to the Mass Hermit, D. Sisto - The Post-human Sound: an Interview with Michelangelo Frammartino, A. Lanfranchi - Against Animal Rights? A Comment on Contro i diritti degli animali? Proposta per un antispecismo postumanista (Against Animal Right? A Proposal to a Post-human Antispeciesism), by R. Marchesini, A.G. Biuso - Posthuman Glasses for Nomadic Subjectivities: a Comment on Il postumanesimo filosofico e le sue alterità (Philosophical Posthumanism and Its Others), by F. Ferrando, A. Balzano - Reviews: LNRZ, Golem (2014); LNRZ, Astrogamma (2015), V. Gamberi - Alessandro Ferrante, Pedagogia e orizzonte post-umanista (2014), C. Palmieri - Davide Sisto, Narrare la morte. Dal romanticismo al post-umano (2013), C. Rebuffo - Wajdi Mouawad, Anima (2015), D. Zagaria - Her (2013), film directed by Spike Jonze, A. Lanfranchi e G. Ravanelli.

CONTENTS: Dialogo Ergo Sum: from a Reflexive Ontology to a Relational Ontology, R. Marchesini – The Party of the Anthropocene: Post-humanism, Environmentalism and the Post-anthropocentric Paradigm Shift, F. Ferrando – From Anthropocentrism to Post-humanism in the Educational Debate, A. Ferrante e D. Sartori – Senseless Distributions: Posthumanist Antidotes to the Mass Hermit, D. Sisto – The Post-human Sound: an Interview with Michelangelo Frammartino, A. Lanfranchi – Against Animal Rights? A Comment on Contro i diritti degli animali? Proposta per un antispecismo postumanista (Against Animal Right? A Proposal to a Post-human Antispeciesism), by R. Marchesini, A.G. Biuso – Posthuman Glasses for Nomadic Subjectivities: a Comment on Il postumanesimo filosofico e le sue alterità (Philosophical Posthumanism and Its Others), by F. Ferrando, A. Balzano – Reviews: LNRZ, Golem (2014); LNRZ, Astrogamma (2015), V. Gamberi – Alessandro Ferrante, Pedagogia e orizzonte post-umanista (2014), C. Palmieri – Davide Sisto, Narrare la morte. Dal romanticismo al post-umano (2013), C. Rebuffo – Wajdi Mouawad, Anima (2015), D. Zagaria – Her (2013), film directed by Spike Jonze, A. Lanfranchi e G. Ravanelli.

Table of Contents: Past the Human: Narrative Ontologies and Ontological Stories. Editorial, Serenella Iovino, Roberto Marchesini, Eleonora Adorni - Posthumanism in Literature and Ecocriticism. Introduction, Serenella Iovino - From Posthumanism to Posthuman Ecocriticim, Serpil Oppermann - Threatening Animals?, Heather I. Sullivan - The Posthuman that Could Have Been: Mary Shelley’s Creature, Margarita Carretero González - Gadda’s Pasticciaccio and the Knotted Posthuman Household, Deborah Amberson, Elena Past - Posthuman Spaces of Relation: Literary Responses to the Species Boundary in Primate Literature, Diana Villanueva Romero - Can the Humanities Become Post-human? Interview with Rosi Braidotti, Cosetta Veronese - Recent Approaches in the Posthuman Turn: Braidotti, Herbrechter, and Nayar, Başak Ağın Dönmez - More-than-green Ecologies, Christopher Schliephake - Posthuman Narratives, Italian Style, Emiliano Guaraldo - Deep Breathing Ecocriticism: Stories, Matter, and Spiritual Dimensions, Alessandro Macilenti

Recent debates about the Anthropocene have prompted a re-negotiation of the relationship between human subjectivity and nonhuman matter within a wide range of disciplines. This collection builds on the assumption that our understanding of the nonhuman world is bound up with the experience of space: thinking about and with nonhuman spaces destabilizes human-scale assumptions. Literary form affords this kind of nonanthropocentric experience; one role of the critic in the Anthropocene is to foreground the function of space and description in challenging the conventional link between narrative and human (inter)subjectivity. Bringing together New Formalism, ecocriticism, and narrative theory, the included essays demonstrate that literature can transgress the strong and long-established boundary of the human frame that literary and narrative scholarship clings to. The focus is firmly on the contemporary but with strategic samplings in earlier cultural texts (the American transcendentalists, modernist fiction) that anticipate present-day anxieties about the nonhuman, while at the same time offering important conceptual tools for working through them.

Roberto Marchesini presents a timely proposal within post-human philosophy in order to overcome the centuries-long separation between human beings, non-human animals and technology. This book highlights the inspiring nature of the relationship with non-human beings - what Marchesini calls "Epiphany" - and how its enhancement can open new existential dimensions. Technology is also reinterpreted, no longer as a performative tool, but as a virus that infiltrates the human dimension and changes its predicates. Technopoietic events are not just the product of human intelligence, but they arise from an epiphany (a becoming alterity), thus positioning technology well within the ontological and somatic dimension of human beings. This book lays the foundations for a new and non-anthropocentric Humanism, which is able to recognize the essential role that non-human alterities have had throughout our history. Roberto Marchesini presents a timely proposal within post-human philosophy in order to overcome the centuries-long separation between human beings, non-human animals and technology. This book highlights the inspiring nature of the relationship with non-human beings - what Marchesini calls "Epiphany" - and how its enhancement can open new existential dimensions. Technology is also reinterpreted, no longer as a performative tool, but as a virus that infiltrates the human dimension and changes its predicates. Technopoietic events are not just the product of human intelligence, but they arise from an epiphany (a becoming alterity), thus positioning technology well within the ontological and somatic dimension of human beings. This book lays the foundations for a new and non-anthropocentric Humanism, which is able to recognize the essential role that non-human alterities have had throughout our history.